Spotlight Stories

Brown curriculum allows Air Force veteran Jay O’Neill ’26 to obtain new electrical engineering skills, while deepening language skills previously acquired.

Each summer, thousands of high school students study on campus and around the globe in Brown’s Pre-College Programs, which offer intensive academics, cultural immersion, research experiences and more.

The Raimondo Research Lab focuses on chemically modifying RNA and designing nanoparticles for therapeutic delivery to the body, an immunotherapy concept that holds immense promise in the field of immunoengineering.

The Joukowsky dissertation award in the Life Sciences goes to Cel Welch, who completed their Ph.D. in Biomedical Engineering this spring. Through their dissertation, titled Novel Devices, Physical Mechanisms, and Analytical Techniques for Use in Next Generation Cellular Diagnostics, Welch developed novel electrical and acoustic methods to process tissue into single cells for direct sequencing.

Two Engineering students claim coveted Fulbright student scholarships to conduct research, teach abroad next year.